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PhD Dissertations |
This page links to dissertations from the UMd PERG that are available on the web. Click on the red button to go to the abstract, table of contents, and links to view or download PDF files of the individual chapters.
| Author | Title | Year | Go to thesis page |
| Saul | Beyond problem solving: Evaluating introductory physics courses through the hidden curriculum | 1998 |  |
| Wittmann | Making sense of how students come to an understanding of physics: An example from mechanical waves | 1998 | |
| Bao | Dynamics of student modeling: A theory, algorithms, and application to quantum mechanics | 1999 | |
| Sabella | Using the context of physics problem solving to evaluate the coherence of student knowledge | 1999 | |
| Lippmann | Students' understanding of measurement and uncertainty in the physics laboratory: Social construction, underlying concepts, and quantitative analysis | 2003 | |
| Tuminaro | A cognitive framework for analyzing and describing introductory students' use and understanding of mathematics in physics | 2004 | |
| Atkins | Analogies as categorization phenomena: Studies from scientific discourse | 2004 | |
| Gresser | A Study Of Social Interaction And Teamwork In Reformed Physics Laboratories | 2006 | |
| Russ | A Framework for Recognizing Mechanistic Reasoning in Student Scientific Inquiry | 2006 | |
| Bing | An Epistemic Framing Analysis of Upper-Level Physics Students' Use of Mathematics | 2008 | |
| Hutchison | Epistemological Authenticity in Science Classrooms | 2008 | |
| McCaskey | Comparing and Contrasting Different Methods for Probing Student Epistemology and Epistemological Development in Introductory Physics | 2009 | |
| Frank | The Dynamics of Variability in Introductory Physics Students' Thinking: Examples from Kinematics | 2009 | |
| Goertzen | Investigating and Accounting for Physics Graduate Students’ Tutorial Classroom Practice | 2010 | |
| Jones | Applying Mathematics to Physics and Engineering: Sympolic forms of the integral | 2010 | |
| Conlin | Building shared understandings in introductory physics tutorials through risk, repair, conflict & comedy | 2012 | |
| Hull | Do students have cultural scripts? Results from the first implementation of open-source tutorials in Japan | 2013 | |
| Hall | Examining the effect of students' classroom expectations on undergraduate biology course reform | 2013 | |
| Kuo | More than just "plug-and-chug": Exploring how physics students make sense with equations | 2013 | |
| Richards | Exploring what stabilizes teachers' attention and responsiveness to the substance of students' scientific thinking in the classroom | 2013 | |
| Danielak | How electrical engineering students design computer programs | 2014 | |
| Dreyfus | Interdisciplinary reasoning about energy in an introductory physics course for the life sciences | 2014 | |
| Geller | Explanatory Coherence in the Context of the Second Law of Thermodynamics | 2015 | |
| Olmstead | An assessment of professional development for astronomy
and physics faculty: Expanding our vision of how to support faculty's learning about teaching |
2016 | |
| Quan | Becoming a physicist: How identities and practices shape physics trajectories | 2017 | |
| Eichenlaub | Mathematical sensemaking via epistemic games | 2018 | |
| Hemingway | A biophysical perspective on collective cell migration and mathematical modeling in physics for the life sciences | 2018 | |
| Sohr | Student sense-making in quantum mechanics: Lessons to teachers from studies of group-work and representation use | 2018 | |
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E. F. Redish
Last modified 5 February 2019